Rescuers find body in search for trapped miners in Wales

Rescue workers searching for four men trapped in the Gleision Colliery near
Cilybebyll in the Swansea Valley have located a body.

10:44AM BST 16 Sep 2011

Superintendent Phil Davies told reporters at the scene: "A miner has been found. He is deceased. We are not in a current position to recover him from the mine and therefore we don't know the identity of that person."

Emergency services said they had not given up hope of finding the other three men alive.

"The remaining miners, we still believe, are located the other side of the blockage in the lower shaft and we're still trying to gain access to that shaft," a spokesman said.

The miners have been named as Phillip Hill, 45, from Neath, Charles Breslin, 62, David Powell, 50, and Garry Jenkins, 39 in the Swansea Valley.